[1] After them also folowed Anselme archbishop of Canturburie, Gerard archbishop of Yorke,Anselme go|eth also to Rome. & Wil|liam the elect of Winchester, whom the pope recei|ued with a courteous kind of interteinement. But Anselme was highlie honored aboue all the residue, whose diligence and zeale in defense of the ordinan|ces of the sée of Rome, he well inough vnderstood. The ambassadours in like maner declaring the effect of their message, opened vnto the pope the ground of the controuersie begun betweene the king and An|selme, & with good arguments went about to prooue the kings cause to be lawfull. Upon the otherside, Anselme and his partakers with contrarie reasons sought to confute the same. Whervpon the pope de|clared, that sith by the lawes of the church it was de|creed, that the possession of any spirituall benefice, obteined otherwise than by meanes of a spirituall person, could not be good or allowable; from thence|foorth, neither the king nor any other for him, should challenge any suth right to apperteine vnto them.